🤔 How to minimize your exposure to real-life version of Orwell’s

🤔 How to minimize your exposure to real-life version of Orwell’s telescreens: a guide

French prosecutors have opened a probe into allegations that Apple has been using its Siri voice-controlled assistant to collect, analyze and store user data without authorization or consent. A whistleblower ex-subcontractor whose firm was hired to study the info said it included intimate conversations and data that could be used to ID users.

👃 As the digital noose continues to tighten around us, here’s what you can do to protect yourself:

➡️ Have a Siri, Alexa, Google Nest, Alisa, etc.? Throw them out. The Gestapo-in-a-speaker devices have been embroiled in too many scandals to list, from ‘accidental recording’ and data theft to turning on and off by themselves.

➡️ Bought a “smart TV” with a built-in mic and/or pinhole camera? Get rid of it, fast. These devices are notorious for sending your voice, video and even viewing habit info to third parties, from advertisers to MI5, the CIA and other intel agencies. Plus, they’re rife for hacking.

➡️ Reading this on a smartphone? Chances are it comes preinstalled with software, some of it impossible to install (Samsung’s AppCloud, for example), that collects and broadcasts info ranging from your device ID and IP to fingerprint and voice data.

➡️ Smartphones are also open to hack attacks, including zero-click hacks by spyware like Israel’s Pegasus, which gains access to your contacts, messages, photos and GPS data, and turns cameras and mics into a remote broadcast hub, all without you knowing it.

➡️ In lieu of smartphones, consider landlines or simple button phones without internet, more face-to-face conversations, analog voice recorders, etc. Or at least check out non-Android, non-iOS alternatives like Linux-based phones to reduce exposure.

➡️ Have other wearables (smart watches, fitness trackers) or internet-ready devices in your IoT compatible home (smart lighting, locks, plugs, blinds, thermostats, fans, etc.)? Purge them too. Chances are they’re spying on you in coordination with your main gadgets.

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